Daniel James

He describes Luton as this sort of, which is a working class town in England, as sort of taken over by Muslims.

You know, 15 years ago we had one mosque, now we've got 45.

This sort of rhetoric, to the extent that we're serious about things like social cohesion, we really should be pushing back on things like this.

Okay, so Carl does the interview, teased the interview for his podcast.

It goes out into the socials.

It then is published, but less than 12 hours later, it disappears from social media and from podcast platforms.

What happened?

So this is the million-dollar question, or the $2 million question.

Yeah, $2.3 million question.

It really is, at the moment, pretty unclear.

The only outlet that has claimed to have some sort of detail about this is The Australian, who Steve Jackson, their media diarist, has published his piece.

And in it, he says that Stefanovic brought down the podcast himself.

That's interesting.

Like, if it is true that he has simply realised the gravity of it after the fact, then I don't think I'm allowed to swear on this, but he's a moron.

Like, he must be a moron.

Very slow on the uptake.

If it is not immediately apparent to you that Tommy Robinson is a far-right extremist and it is problematic for the fourth biggest Australian on the Spotify charts, the biggest man in television, the highest highly paid man in television, if it's not apparent to you that there's a problem with that, you're an idiot.

I think we need to have a really serious conversation about the kinds of talent that we platform in this country as the face of breakfast television.

I think there should be some serious reflection at Nine.

But Nine are in this bind, right?